GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 455

HOUSE BILL 817

 

AN ACT REGARDING ESCAPES FROM LOCAL CONFINEMENT FACILITIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-256 is amended by changing the period to a comma and adding the following:

"except that the person is guilty of a Class J felony if:

(1)       he has been convicted of a felony and has been committed to the facility pending transfer to the State prison system; or

(2)       he is serving a sentence imposed upon conviction of a felony."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-258.2 is amended as follows:

(1)       By rewriting the catch line to read: "Possession of dangerous weapon in prison.";

(2)       By designating the present language as subsection (a); and

(3)       By adding a new subsection to read:

"(b)      A person is guilty of a Class H felony if he assists a prisoner in the custody of the Division of Prisons or of any local confinement facility as defined in G.S. 153A-217 in escaping or attempting to escape and:

(1)       in the perpetration of the escape or attempted escape he commits an assault with a deadly weapon and inflicts bodily injury; or

(2)       by the use of a deadly weapon he effects the escape of the prisoner."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1983.